Game Info
Year
2017
Players
1-8
Age
14+
Playtime
240 min
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Description
Investigators race to stop Shudde M'ell as earthquakes and other disasters devastate cities around the world
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Adds more to the game than other small box expansions.
- The world changes over time, limiting options and creating a sense of consequence.
- Devastation encounters provide a meaningful way to interact with destroyed locations.
- Disasters add atmospheric and apocalyptic events.
- Very thematic with the mysteries and encounters.
- Adds variety to encounter decks.
- A different twist on the game with more meaning behind tokens.
Cons
- Was too easy in their experience.
- The challenge was not always present.
- In some cases, choices were between taking damage or madness.
Thematic elements
- destruction
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Dark Pact — Cards that are very bad with almost no way to get rid of them, and trigger in pretty bad ways.
- Devastation Encounters — These are encounters that occur in destroyed locations, where players help survivors, see things, or rummage through destruction for items.
- Disasters — Atmospheric and apocalyptic events that affect the game.
- Madness — A condition that players accumulate, often tied to difficult choices or card effects.
- Threat track — As threat increases, more disasters are drawn.
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- this one does more than what the other ones did
- The board starts to throw destroyed over time you can potentially destroy other cities which starts limiting your options
- Disasters are atmospheric events and stuff that like apocalyptic events that the game will start Lee know affecting you in in terrible ways
- this is one of the easiest ones at least in our experience
- it was very cool very very somatic with with the mysteries that we had to do
- I really like this one I I thought it was really cool I can only imagine what it'd be like if it was a little bit more difficult
- I really like it it's not a 10 because almost no game is and it has no inherent problem it's just ours was too easy
- when L Detroit Arkham Horror is like too easy it kind of takes a little bit of it like they're supposed to be challenging this one wasn't really all that challenging fun and I had a blast but a little bit more challenging
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